Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 2 | I piped with all the passion of a Cartland virgin ( which indeed I was , mentally if not technically ) . |
| 3 | I prayed for all the King 's Kids in their work places . |
| 4 | So I stuck to all the side dishes , which were they were very nice . |
| 5 | But every little detail seemed crucial and it was something I struggled with all the way through , but knowing that Cathy , Joan and I were all on the same wavelength and felt the same level of commitment was a great relief . |
| 6 | And I looked at all the rest of them — a tough lot , I can tell you — they could n't believe it either . |
| 7 | Lunch was an avocado and prawn sandwich and a carton of mango juice , which I admit were a bit out of character but otherwise I looked for all the world like a real musher . |
| 8 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 9 | Yes , yes , oh yes I 've well you know the fires on that I had in all the winter I 'm going to get on that today . |
| 10 | The line tightening in the water told me they had done so , and I struck before all the bow had been taken out of the line . |
| 11 | She grew yams she grew millet she grew vegetables and sunflowers and the food she shared with all the family . |
| 12 | cos she , you heard about all the union did n't you , what happened with the union down there ? |
| 13 | She had lost the one man she loved in all the world . |
| 14 | She thrived on all the attention and excitement . |
| 15 | For a moment he wondered about her , what she thought of all the ribbing and chipping that she received almost every day in this place . |
| 16 | Oh , you went through all the psycho history books ? |
| 17 | When Sweetheart fixed her hair and make-up a certain way and dressed up in the clothes she made on her treadle sewing machine , she looked for all the world like Jane Russell come to life from the big screen . |
| 18 | His sister " face was pinched , her eyes large and dark against the paleness of her skin , and she looked for all the world like some sort of trapped animal . |
| 19 | ‘ If she 's dead , ’ said Sam , ‘ she 's not going to mind much about anything , and anyway , if she went to all the trouble of making that tape in the first place , she 's obviously not bothered about leaving it lying around . |
| 20 | She felt for all the world as if she 'd had a hangover — an event that had happened exactly once in her well-ordered life . |
| 21 | It would be interesting to know what she did with all the money he left her . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You really are incredible , ’ she said with all the venom she could muster . |
| 23 | rock and roll You know that tape that you had with all the rock and roll 's greatest hits . |
| 24 | She pinched herself , but might as well have been pinching the padded plastic of the bed on which she sat for all the sensation she felt . |
| 25 | Here she sat amidst all the beauty she had created — miserable as hell . |
| 26 | And then we stayed a few days in London and we went to the Baths and we went to the zoo and we went to all the science , by either the old trams or the first of the buses that Cos they complete with tram-riding and that was rather exciting in London , seeing the all the top hats and people in coats , tails and things . |
| 27 | Newcastle had lost just one League game away from home before this and they started with all the confidence of a four-match winning run behind them . |
| 28 | They saw to all the washing up . |
| 29 | ‘ Back in the '70s , he worked with all the topster Ops — Matt Houston , Cannon , Banacek , Mannix , Lance White . |
| 30 | As he threw it into the sea , watching the water swallow up his past month 's work , he thought of all the walking he was soon to do . |